As the COVID-19 pandemic pushes more East Texans outside, it's also inspired a Christmas fervor for many looking to escape the pandemic blues — yes, bring on the holidays. The area's Christmas tree farms say they're ready.

Downtown Kilgore merchants opened their doors Saturday evening for holiday shoppers as part of Small Business Saturday.

Your employer-sponsored retirement plan is a valuable asset. But sometimes things happen that can affect the status of your plan.

If you had a roof over your head on Thanksgiving this year, you were blessed. If you had food on the table, you were blessed, and if you were acknowledged somehow and sometime throughout the day by family and friends, you were blessed.

The Kilgore College Rangerettes will host the 10th annual Christmas show Dec. 12-13 at the LeTourneau University Belcher Center in Longview.

I’ve always taken great pride in the tender care I give to my cell phone. Until recently, I could boast that with all of the various cellular devices I’ve possessed through the years (dating back to the first Motorola bag phone my dad gave me during the Early Iron Age), I’d never once had so…

While the coronavirus may have changed many of our Thanksgiving gatherings, the need to protect ourselves from cooking fires continues.

Jesus Christ suffered the agony of a brutal beating and humiliating abuse as he carried his cross to Golgotha.

DEAR DR. ROACH: A friend was diagnosed with high blood pressure several years ago and has been on a hypertensive drug since then. However, over the past years, he has lost over 50 pounds and is no longer overweight. He works out every day. He never exercised prior to his diagnosis. He seems …

I wasn’t exactly an “A” student when it came to history during my school days, so some of my facts could be wrong about the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Divorce is common in our society, but that doesn’t make it any easier to navigate. If you’ve recently finalized a divorce, you’ve likely been coping with uncertainty and tension, but you can still avoid turning an already difficult situation into one that’s even more challenging. How? By making the right financial and investment moves.

Recently I received an email that might have been classified as “glurge”, apparently Patricia Chapin’s term for an over-sentimental story with a moral, which story might induce a kind of wretching that sounds like the term “glurge."

When the Kilgore College Theatre Department presents “A Christmas Carol: The Radio Play” this holiday season, viewers will be able to enjoy the production from the comfort of their homes.

Ryan Polk's office is just around the corner from mine. In the space he shares with the city's Main Street coordinator, Meredith Brown, he labors long and hard drawing out-of-towners to Kilgore.

“The holidays are busy” is quite an understatement in our neck of the woods and this year, with or without COVID, is no exception for the cooks, bakers, chefs and caterers.

DEAR DR. ROACH: Why don't you inform your patients about Fosamax causing a stroke? This is well studied, and my mother is currently hospitalized from stroke, most likely from Fosamax. Doctors need to learn how to be doctors and stop handing out medication. Doctor incompetence killed my father and now is working on killing my mother.

With a stunning backdrop of multi-colored Bougainvillea plants, member Patty Sanders presented the program for Civic Garden Club's October meeting.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I would like to know what you think about brain supplements and whether you would recommend any. My age is 84 and I am in good health, but my memory is getting bad. -- B.S.

His goal was to pay as much honor and respect on Veterans Day as he possibly could and it started with a ceremony and tour held at the American Freedom Museum in Bullard.

The return to standard time. The presidential election. The debate over its results. The more-obvious onset of autumn. Veterans’ Day. More coronavirus cases nationally, in Texas, and even in our East Texas Counties. Near exhaustion from those and whatever other stressors we each experience in our community, church, family, and individual lives.

Recently, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert and Bummercloud in Chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci, expressed concerns over families gathering together for a traditional Thanksgiving celebration this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s almost Thanksgiving. And although 2020 may have been a difficult year for you, as it has been for many people, you can probably still find things for which you can be thankful – such as your family. How can you show your appreciation for your loved ones?